US Banks and financial institutions “must now monitor for”” DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) “attacks against their networks and have a plan in place to try and mitigate against such attacks” as reported by Infoweek. The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) issued a “Joint Statement – Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)…
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After filing for US bankruptcy protection in Texas based on a Japanese bankruptcy, the Judge ordered that Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles to come to Dallas because if “he avails himself of this court, my God, he is going to get himself over here” as reported in Reuters. On…
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In order to set the record straight Google felt compelled to debunk myths which “can be fun, but they can also be confusing or unsettling” so on March 20, 2014 Google listed “The Top 10 Google Glass Myths.” eWeek reported concerns that have been raised including:
Glass devices…
A court ruled that a “person retains a legitimate expectation of privacy in the contents of his cell phone when that phone is being temporarily stored in a jail property room,” and rejected the prosecutor’s claim “that a modern-day cell phone is like a pair of pants or a bag…
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A court ruled that Gmail users consented to Google’s monetization of Gmail content ended the class action lawsuit since “consent must be litigated on an individual, rather than class-wide basis.” The class action suit filed in 2011 In Re Google Gmail Litigation was dismissed “with prejudice,” which means the plaintiffs…
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In 2013 California proposed a new “right to know” data access bill that “that would require companies to reveal to individuals the “personal information” they store—in other words, a digital copy of every location trace and sighting of their IP address” as reported in an article entitled “The Data Made…
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Pew reported it canvassed “2,558 experts and technology builders” who “predict the Internet will become ‘like electricity’ — less visible, yet more deeply embedded in people’s lives for good and ill.” Included in the Report were my comments about education by 2025:
The greatest social change between now and 2025…
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Over the next 10 years “approximately five billion people will become connected to the Internet,” however in countries with the most severe censorship including “places where clicking on an objectionable article can get your entire extended family thrown in prison, or worse” according to a NY Times Editorial written by…
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On Facebook’s 10th birthday Pew reported that “64% of Facebook users visit the site on a daily basis” and it is still the “dominant social networking platform, used by 57% of all American adults and 73% of all those ages 12-17.” Pew Research Center went to describe these…
Since the current US payment and financial system makes “things easy for fraudsters” Congress is considering a requirement that the US financial industry “adopt new card security measures used in other countries” as reported by Computerworld. On March 5, 2013 members of the US House Financial Services Committee called…
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